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Looked again at the studs up, I will re-evaluate, it should have been a pen. City very lucky, but I dont think it was corruption, they just seem to always get the rub of the green.
One day their luck will run out…
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Apart from not carding Walker for his umpteen fouls I thought the ref was pretty good. The City goal was correct and nothing like the Endo ‘foul’ the other week.
The studs up pen shout could have gone to a pen but it would have been very harsh if given, he was clearly only going for the ball and not in an overly aggressive manner. A little reckless yes but not out of control. This is still a contact sport right? If that had been given against Liverpool there would have been a massive outcry and claims of corruption. I have seen them given, but I’ve seen more of them waved away.
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Endo goal was ruled out for offside not the ‘foul’. Ake cannot be offside from a corner and like Endo no ‘foul’ was committed. Its actually consistent for once.
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Mak, how do you mean frustrate City? I don’t think those that sit back with a low block have success against them as city just keep to their principles and usually wear them down. See last week against Utd. I think you need to be aggressive and not let them dictate the pace, so I think Liverpool has one of the best styles to get a result against them.
I ask what you mean because a lot of the time when people say frustrate a team it means don’t give them any space to play in.
We have a lot of injuries but we are at Anfield so I think it could go either way or be a draw. I don’t see neither city or liverpool as strong favorites or either as the leagues form team, that accolade goes to Arsenal who have fantastic momentum going into the home straight.
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If City are such a machine why are they not already top? Were they a machine when they recently dropped points at home against a poor Chelsea team? This season so far they are not as good as the team that is currently top and that team is the one they play away on Sunday. If anyone should be scared it should be the City fans.
All three of the challengers are equally capable of churning out constistant high quality results because that is what all three have been doing for the majority of the season. I don’t see why City are on a level higher than Liverpool or Arsenal so that they are to be feared so much.
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Utd relied on the counter and had a couple of chances to execute it whilst still at 1-0 but failed and then 2nd half was like a training session. Foden was excellent but Utd apart from the two CBs and goalie (for most part anyway) were rubbish, played like an underdog two leagues beneath in an fa cup tie.
I said before the game Utd need to be aggressive and in their faces but they weren’t, they were timid. Awful tactics from one of the supposed big boys.
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Yeah I know Sean, 10 points is massive at this stage. Rumour Tuchel may be sacked before the season close.
Frimpong will surely be snapped up in the summer, not sure by us we already have two quality right backs. Depends who takes over and what they do with TAA I guess.
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Watching Köln vs Leverkusen as a warm up for the Manchester derby, Alonso’s men just taken the lead against 10 men. Frimpong the right wing back scoring from about 4 yards out. Wirtz clearly the focal point of the team.
Heck of an atmosphere, think the ability to have a beer whilst watching helps!
Back to the UK and my concern for uTd is up front as Rashford cannot hold the ball up. Think it’s going to be counter attacking for utd which I’m not convinced is always the best idea versus City.
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Nil, yes Arsenal have a couple of “easy” games next but overal I think Liverpool have the easier remaining fixtures (just). Out of the tradional big six, Liverpool play the fewest:
Liverpool: City (H) Utd (A), Spurs (H)
City: Utd (H), Liverpool (A) Arsenal (H) Spurs (A)
Arsenal: Chelsea (H), City (A), Spurs (A), Utd (A)I mentioned on a previous thread that Spurs play City, Arsenal and Liverpool in consecutive matches towards the end of the season and will have a massive say in where the title ends up, and of course for their own top 4 ambitions.
You could also throw Villa into the mix as they play all three still, home to Liverpool on the penultimate round and away at City and Arsenal.
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Just to steer this away from our apparent jealously of City anyone see what happened in Spain? Quite the opposite of play until the big boys score!
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The ref made a mistake but not the massive one being portrayed. There were still different passages of play until the goal, the biggest mistake was the Forset lad not hoofing it the the edge of his own area.
I have seen a comment from a City fan saying Liverpool should be punished for this blantant cheating with a deduction of points. This from a City fan of all people discussing cheating!
On to today and I have a feeling Utd will play the same way they did at Anfield. The problem is City don’t play risky football like Liverpool and will just keep probing until they get the goals. I can see it being a 1-0 win to City with about 80% possession. Really hope I’m wrong and Utd are aggressive and in their faces from the start and attack with tempo but I can’t see it happening.
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Seems a lack of urgency all over the pitchfor utd. Fulham far quicker moving the ball and finding space much easier, just their final quality lacking or they’d be two or three up.
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Watching the utd game and 30 minutes in and Fulham are the better side yet its still nil nil. Its like most utd games I’ve seen this season, utd outplayed 90% of the time but have one moment of individual skill and nick the points. Tactically they are 2nd best so far.
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Some of Spurs play has been good to watch, but some has been tactically poor. They made some good signings but I thnk have had a few injuries (not as much as us mind, we take the most injured team award this season!).
I think we all knew for a while the title would be between the current top 3 and I had 4th place between Spurs and Villa but Utd not far away now and have momentum.
Here’s the remaining games for the top 3:
Liverpool: Nottingham Forest (A), Manchester City (H), Everton (A), Brighton (H), Sheffield United (H), Manchester United (A), Crystal Palace (H), Fulham (A), West Ham (A), Tottenham (H), Aston Villa (A), Wolves (H)
City: Bournemouth (A), Manchester United (H), Liverpool (A), Brighton (A), Arsenal (H), Aston Villa (H), Crystal Palace (A), Luton Town (H), Tottenham (A), Nottingham Forest (A), Wolves (H), Fulham (A), West Ham (H)
Arsenal: Newcastle (H), Sheffield United (A), Brentford (H), Chelsea (H), Manchester City (A), Luton Town (H), Brighton (A), Aston Villa (H), Wolves (A), Tottenham (A), Bournemouth (H), Manchester United (A), Everton (H)
After this weekend City have a difficult run of 5 games. Have to say Liverpool have the slightly easier remaining games, just a shame we will probably need to play our U12s in a few of them!
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It’s not often you get to mention the word ‘Spurs’ and ‘title winners’ in the same sentence, especially once their ‘good start’ is all but a distant memory, but this year Spurs might play a big part on who becomes the title winners. At the end of April and the first week of May they play consecutively:
City at home
Arsenal at home
Liverpool awayCould also have a major impact on 4th place. Poor as Utd were for the majority of the season they remained in touching distance and now look to finding a bit of form. With that late run for Spurs I fancy Utd to pip them.
Let’s hope Villa can maintain some form eh?!
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“I think Klopp or someone else at the club said that we’ll be getting a Sporting Director before we go after a new manager and I hope that it’s actually true.”
The last rumour I heard was West ham technical director Tim Steidten who basically gave a come and get me plea a week or two ago. According to todays Guardian the rumours that he’s leaving are getting stronger.
And what is one of his most famous achievements? He was the guy that appointed Alonso at Leverkusen. Maybe this is something to keep an eye on.
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Chelsea deserved that, better finishing could have had another. Fully expect City to come out fired up and win however, but there will be chances for Chelsea on the break.
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That’s because Chucky it doesn’t involve Spurs and you’ve never said anything positive about anyone or anything unless it’s to do with your team.
Personally I think what he is doing with an unfancied team is fantastic and doing it whilst playing entertaining football. No manager appointment is guaranteed unless you’re already run by a state that’s not afraid to bend the rules, but I think any Liverpool or indeed Munich or Madrid fan is within their rights to be excited over this potential appointment. (Think Madrid can be ruled out as CA recently signed an extension and they are doing well this season but you never know).
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Mav, no didnt get to watch it, don’t have the Bundesliga package. But I have seen the highlights and reports and it sounded like Leverkusen were superb. What he is doing there is simply staggering, bare in mind he took over the team in or just above the relegation zone.
Can he replicate this at Liverpool? Will he stick with 3 at the back? I dont see that he has to just because he plays with 3 now. Part of his game is the 3 and 2 holding midfielders are all good on the ball and can play their own mini-game to draw the opposion to them. With arguably better players at Liverpool maybe he will be happy to use only 2 centre backs.
I think his style will excite Liverpool fans if he does indeed take over. As a very popular player he will be given extra time but I think if the fans can get into what he is trying to do early on then that helps even if results don’t go 100% the way they want them to (like when Klopp started).
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